By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — It's that time of year — again — when cold air sweeps across the Great Lakes region, dropping huge amounts of lake-effect snow from Michigan's Upper Peninsula into Western New York. Snow has already started falling Wednesday in and ...
By SIMON D. SCHUSTER/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Three weeks ago, state Rep. Angela Rigas woke up to the sound of protesters chanting outside her west Michigan home. The group of several dozen activists were demanding the Caledonia Republican withdraw her sponsorship of a bill that ...
WEST OLIVE, Mich. (AP) — The Trump administration has once again extended the life of a Michigan coal-fired power plant that was supposed to close last May as the utility Consumers Energy transitions to cleaner sources of electricity. The U.S. Energy Department says there are "emergency ...
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co.'s new headquarters, the carmaker's first central office switch since Dwight Eisenhower was president, is double the size of its old one with room for twice as many employees. The new HQ has seven restaurants as ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man long blamed for the disappearance of his three sons at Thanksgiving in 2010 has been charged with their deaths, court records show. John Skelton is facing three counts of murder and tampering with evidence in the deaths of ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Large swaths of the U.S. awaited one of the season's first blasts of wintry weather Sunday as temperatures dipped and snow fell in the Northern Plains, snowstorms developed eastward across the Great Lakes and the South prepared for a big ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two 20-year-old men who had acquired high-powered weapons and practiced at gun ranges were scouting LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit in September for a possible Halloween attack, authorities said Monday in filing terrorism-related ...
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI Director Kash Patel's allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend. Announcing their arrests on Friday, Patel said more ...
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend. Authorities with the FBI and in Michigan have offered few details about the case, ...
By MICHAEL PHILLIS and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors' lead water pipes, hoping his mother's house would be next. Workers told him it wasn't on their list but probably assigned to another contractor. With ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A yearslong effort to challenge Michigan's practice of storing millions of dried blood samples from newborn babies has been turned upside down by a federal appeals court, which threw out key decisions in favor of parents who said the policy ...
SOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — An explosion destroyed a house before dawn Thursday in suburban Detroit, killing a woman who was trapped in the rubble and severely injuring a man who was blown to the front yard. "Both had extensive burns and internal injuries," Southgate police Det. Sgt. Nathan ...
By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and died in January, Michigan Department of Health and Human ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump's 25% tax on imported cars, light trucks and auto parts is likely to drive up prices at a time when many Americans already struggle to afford a new set of wheels. The tariffs will also force car ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A court says there is no constitutional right to possess brass knuckles in Michigan, a weapon typically associated with violent ambushes in dark alleys and banned in nearly two dozen states. The Michigan Court of Appeals, in an 18-page ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan judge has thrown cold water on a plan to have Walmart shoplifters wash cars as a consequence for their misdemeanor crime. The unusual sentence came from Judge Jeffrey Clothier, who has been on the 67th District Court in Genesee ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him to seek a much bigger role as his party's next presidential ...
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry's biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper. From talk of acquiring Greenland and its vast mineral ...
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit mother has been arraigned Friday on murder and other charges in the killing of her 9-year-old son whose body was buried in the backyard of the westside home where they once lived. A 36th District Court judge ordered Brandee Pierce jailed without bond, the Wayne ...
By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Minimum-wage workers in Michigan started getting a pay raise Friday as Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican legislators agreed to a compromise that scales back sick leave and wages for tipped workers in an effort to ...